Kay P

The grayed out buttons on save or print is so generous thing to do.
If that peice of intellectual property was so hard to share ... Keep it encrypted on your hard disk in the vault.
 

I echo this.
And after getting entire suite applications available from affinity on PC and iPad , I am HUGELY disappointed with the attitude of showing us samples ( I know they are samples and not templates ...so what ) with no editable content ...no other templates ...nothing.
Pls keep the sample also .don't need that generosity.
And someone tells us to export PDF from some program ( why should I buy another program ).

I believe offering templates in a few website editing suites has led to their quick and successful acceptance.  Not offering any endorsements, but products such as Elementor, DIVI, and others.  Many offer internal methods for creating one's own template library, but also a ton of pre-builts. 

Having purchased quite a number of templates for Serif PagePlus in the past, I must express my disappointment that there is no simple way of using these in Affinity Publisher. Surely some sort of translator could be easily created and provided for your loyal customers, even if it is simply as matter of goodwill.

HI @Medical Officer Bones
Nice name .   Krita Colorise mask is interesting . Shall try it out and report. Need to see how it works with complex/large drawings..and if it has become stable enough for windows .
But the issues is it needs another program to handle a small task . I am  looking for a faster and easier way...
maybe something like this :
 

Hi Dean,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Affinity Designer is an hybrid vector/raster illustration and graphic/web/UI design application. You can use it to design/layout websites (visually - no code output), user interfaces, and all type of print/graphic work like flyers, posters, banners, logos, etc except projects that rely on heavy/linked text blocks (we will have another app later for that - Affinity Publisher). It also great for illustration work both vector and raster based (or mixed simultaneously). Although it has a few basic tools commonly found in  photo editing apps - Selection tools, Flood Fill, Dodge/Burn etc / its photo editing abilities/funcionality are not comparable to a true/complete photo editor. You don't have access to channels, RAW development/conversion, HDR merge/tone mapping, panorama stitching, Filters etc etc just to name a few.
 
Affinity Photo is a RAW converter/developer and photo editing app. It mostly used to convert/develop RAW images (taken with digital cameras), for photo editing/compositing and painting/illustration (raster based brushes only).

Just to add to what MEB has said, Affinity Photo allows you to work with vector shapes but it doesn't support vector brushes (so once you've placed a brush stroke on the canvas, you can't tweak its path or change the stroke attributes as you can in Affinity Designer).

I've been collecting links to various resources useful in the field of architectural rendering and visualisation and I'd like to share them with the community. There are quite a few on my list as it has been compiled over some years.
 
These are content related: cut out people and objects, vegetation etc:
 
http://www.gobotree.com/ http://xoio.de/en/ http://skalgubbar.se/ http://www.immediateentourage.com/ http://www.mrcutout.com/index.php/people-cutouts http://visualizingarchitecture.com/favorite-architectural-cutout-and-texture-resources/ http://texturer.com/ https://placeit.net/c/people http://www.viz-people.com/ http://vyonyx.com/cutouts/ http://www.nonscandinavia.com/ http://www.escalalatina.com/ http://www.cutoutlife.com/ http://skalgubbrasil.tumblr.com/   These are tutorials and example specific to architectural presentations:   http://visualizingarchitecture.com/no-render-quick-collage/ http://vyonyx.com/tutorials/ http://www.arqui9.com/ https://www.behance.net/arqui9 http://www.archdaily.com/645270/architecture-software-tutorials-part-2-what-we-heard-from-you http://www.ccc.umontreal.ca/fiche_concours.php?lang=fr&cId=207 http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/163772/water-reflections-using-displace-filter https://visualizingarchitecture.com/tutorials/ http://landarchs.com/beyond-basics-10-photoshop-hacks-advanced-photoshop-skills/ http://landarchs.com/10-best-photoshop-tutorials-youtube-landscape-architects/ http://visualizingarchitecture.tumblr.com/   And these are more generic stock resources:   http://www.cgtextures.com/ http://cgtextures.com/ http://compfight.com/ http://everystockphoto.com/ http://obeygiant.com/archives/ http://www.premiumpsd.com/#_ http://www.vectorstock.com/ http://www.123rf.com/ http://www.veer.com/ http://subtlepatterns.com/ http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ http://www.thomasnet.com/cadmodels.html?WT.mc_t=blg&WT.mc_n=blg1107&channel=email http://medialoot.com/ http://www.sketchuptexture.com/p/bricks-section.html http://www.texturepilot.com/ http://texturelib.com/ http://nos.twnsnd.co/ http://www.gratisography.com/ http://graphicburger.com/ http://nobacks.com/    

Hi, I’ve recently bought an iPad Pro and have been eager to try affinity designer, wow I’m blown away!! 
I work as a graphic designer and have to use adobe products at work, I could not imagine Having to illustrate this in Adobe Illustrator. 
Anyway this is my attempt at photo realism. Thanks for looking 

Hi,
 
I postetd this allready in the questions and feedback area, but it might be better here.
Further - I am german, so please don´t hit me for my bad english... :)
 
Architects (like me) often use Adobe Photoshop for coloring black lined drawings, floor-plans and elevations etc...
For this it is very helpfull to use all areas for the "bucket" tool or the "magic wand" to identify areas to be filled with color.
Then one layer is used for the colors, another for the boundary lines (as an imported line drawing, floor plan etc. as eps or pdf)
 
Currently Affinity Photo only uses objects on the working-layer to identify boundarys for Areas wich are to be filled with colour (e.g. with the bucket/fill areas tool).
 
Much better would be to have the outlines on another layer...
 
With this, to colorize black-lined drawings is very fast and easy and would be a big benefit!
 
Best regards,
Eike

nice idea..
but i tried it with the other idea and it seems to be a real fast workflow.
open one of the pfd-s and  delete the pfd..  now your docuament has allready the right size used in the plotted pdf depending on the dpi settings you have used..
 
now switch in your snap settings to only snap to document..  
 
drag and drop your first pdf on the document and use the move tool to snap to the document center  (by the way i use xnviewmp with ghostscript to see immages and pdfs ore ai´s like with bridge)
 
now apply th layer effects...  color    and after this thin line using the same color of your color-layer effect..
 
strg + j   duplicate the layer in place as often as needed...
 
use for the embedded docs the replace option to load all of your other layers.   
 
if i had a wish..   i would like to use my external image browser and drag and drop it on top of my layers which would give me the option to replace the layer..  that would even be faster as the replace button.
 
greetings...  this workaround...  welll     works well.. 

Thanks John, Shall try once again. Though I have been thru these already ..
 
 

Halo Aammppaa,
of course you are right..  in most cases theres a way to fullfill your task,   and of course just to rasterise my embedded objects, make selections and so on will bring you to a layout and graphic, that can reproduce all the graphically aimed visual aspects of your work.. 
But, and thats a very big But,  Affinity wants to compete to Photoshop.  Just let us forget for a moment that for this smal amout of money its a great software, and thats still develloping.
I f they realy want to make ground , they have to give comparable solutions or better solutions. 
And i am sure i can speak for the whole architectural World and its workflows. Allready in Germany you have about 130 000 Architects. Theres nearly no architectural Company involved in Competitions, that doesnt use Photoshop at the moment, and all of them hate the new Rent-policy of Adobe..  ore have illegal copies of it.
Affinity could fill this gap easiliy, if only they woul embed only a hand full of workflow improvements.
 
to understand this you have to know that architects in competition have to deal with dozends of changes coming from their drawings that come of course straigt of architectural CAD Programms.  This said, you have to know, that the real workflow boost together with photoshop come from embedded and linked pdf or eps files that you print from your cad file into a folder, and than use to build up your Photoshop document to improve it. and each time in the competition process, your building or florplan, your landscape or your siteplan changes, and it does again and again and again, the only  thing you have to do in photoshop, is to refresh your linked and embedded printings from the cad file.
of course than have to do other changes, but the overall structure of your Plan now embedded in Photoshp doesent have to be rebuild again and again and again..  this is the reason i am here.. 
jus to make affinity listen to us architects too.
 
so what are the most missing features at the moment in workflow of architectural companys (for photograper for example affinity allready is great)
1. linked embedded objects
2 in affinity linked and embedded pdf or eps files stay vektor graphics..  for architects this is bad, becaus we never would change lines and shapes inside of affinity. its by faaaaar easier to do this in the specialised CAD Programms like revit.   Sooo..............  give us the opportunity like in Photoshp to also embed our "linked" pdf or eps or even dwg files also as rasterised  embedded objects.. because we wont change the lines inside of affinity photo and secound, because affinity cant as photoshop  use the wand ore color select mode, to get selectoins from the colors...(of embedded vektor objects)   the only way in affinity photo to do this is to rasterise the embedded CAD plan and than you loose the embedded replace option..   which destroys the whole workflow.
3. as told before, you cant select colors from embedded pdf or eps (later maybe also embedded dwg) files..   so make colorselections from vektor graphics work as with pixelselections.
4. Architectural plans and even more architectural renderings exist out of dozens and hundrets of layers or masks...   in photohsop you can strg+left mouse button click an icon in the layermanager,  and select pixels from the layer as in affinity. but furthermore you can Strg+shift+lmb click it to select layermasks additiv..     this is cruicial in workflows when it comes to speed in big documents... i want it too in affinity photo, and hope this easy to implement feature that would improve workflow with masks a lot !!!  will come to the next major build.. 
5. as in the beginning of this thrad, give us also a way to use repettitive patterns as a layer effect. while this is not nearly as important as the stuff above..
 
Affinity will never get big ground in the architectural world without at last the points 1 to 4, just because the advantage of a minor price for the programm will get eaten easily by your moneyloost, because of much slower workflows compared to photoshop..
 
Please affinity, dont get me wrong.. i am here, because affinity photo allready is a great programm.  But especially in my world of architectural use of such programms, it still lacks of some important features to be compettitive to Photoshop.    And i am here, because i hope you listen to this very big part of possible futur customers of your Programm..
 
greetings tom

Hi everyone,
I was asked if in Affinity i can get a comparable effect like the Pattern overlay in the Photoshop Layereffects. 
We use Embedded PDF files in Architectural Plans, and often a good way of improoving the Look is just to make a pattrn overlay in the Layereffects of Photohop, when replace the embedded pfd file.. 
 
is there any idea to do something comparable in Affinity Photo ?